A private AI assistant that runs on your own computer.

Ĝi (Esperanto for “it”) answers your questions with a language model on your machine. No cloud, no account, no telemetry.

Install Ĝi Read the docs

Local and privateTalks only to the model server you choose (Ollama or LM Studio), on this computer by default.
Installs with aptA signed package for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian and Ubuntu on WSL. Updates arrive with your normal updates.
Checks itselfgi selfcheck reports your security baseline; answers from the model are always treated as untrusted.

Quick start

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://gi-ai.app/apt/gi-ai.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/gi-ai.gpg
gpg --show-keys /etc/apt/keyrings/gi-ai.gpg      # compare the fingerprint below
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gi-ai.gpg] https://gi-ai.app/apt stable main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gi-ai.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install gi-ai

Then connect a model server and ask your first question: see Install.

What you need

Ubuntu 24.04 or newer, Linux Mint 22, Debian 12 or newer, or Ubuntu on WSL (Python 3.11+, installed by apt), and a local model server: Ollama on the same machine, or LM Studio (for example on the Windows host of WSL).

Free software

Ĝi is free software under the GNU AGPLv3. The source code is on GitHub.